Automatic Identification of COVID|19|Related Conspiracy Narratives ...

Loaded Language and Conspiracy Theorizing - eScholarship

While many believe conspiracy theorists are typically alt-right fringe forum users, research shows that the people who share conspiracy theory content online ...

The COVID‐19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media ...

The study outlines a model for how the COVID-19 pandemic has uniquely exacerbated the propagation of conspiracy beliefs and subsequent harmful behaviors.

Addressing conspiracy theories: what teachers need to know

Corporate author. UNESCO ; Document code. ED/PSD/GCP/2022/10 ; DOI. https://doi.org/10.54675/QQAE9102 ; Collation. 18 pages ; Language. English ...

Tracking the infodemic - Computational Corpus Linguistics

(Third Party Funds Single) Project leader: Stephanie Evert, Fabian Schäfer Project members: Andreas Blombach, Nathan Dykes, Linda Havenstein, ...

Conspiracy thinking as situation model construction - ScienceDirect

Conspiracy thinking can be viewed as a form of narrative comprehension. We routinely infer actors' goals and plans when someone tells us a story.

The role of defense styles and psychopathological symptoms on ...

We examine the relationship between general and COVID-19-related conspiracy theories, cognitive reflection, psychopathological symptoms, and defense styles.

Interconnectedness and (in)coherence as a signature of conspiracy ...

Conspiracy theories may arise out of an overarching conspiracy worldview that identifies common elements of subterfuge across unrelated or ...

Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia ...

Social media invariant topicalizations of the. Covid‐19 epidemic and the Russia–Ukraine war are the ideal field to validate this hypothesis. The corpus on which ...

Conspiracy theories and real-world harms - SOCKS

The spread of conspiracy theories in online social networks has become a scourge with real-world implications, including targeted hate attacks, political ...

What Distinguishes Conspiracy from Critical Narratives? A ... - arXiv

We perform an analysis which demonstrates that the promotion of intergroup conflict and the presence of violence and anger are key aspects to distinguish.

Conspiracy Narratives on Voat: A Longitudinal Analysis of Cognitive ...

This study addresses this gap by investigating the role of prior cognitive activation, specifically users' engagement with conspiracy cues, in facilitating ...

Why Covid Conspiracy Theories Spread: Understanding the Human ...

Spotlight on Covid-19 research in the School of History and Sociology.

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins - AP News

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that ...

How conspiracy theories emerge – and how their storylines fall apart

The underlying theory is identical for all conspiracy theories,” says UCLA professor Timothy Tangherlini.

(PDF) Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of ...

Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confi- dence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the ...

Citations of Science vs Conspiracy: Collective Narratives in the Age ...

"Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news," Journal of Computational ...

Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: could folklore hold ...

Researchers use AI – and witchcraft folklore – to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up.

Disqualifying Offenses and Other Factors

In addition to the disqualifying criminal offenses listed below, TSA may determine that an applicant is not eligible for the application program based on ...

I was a conspiracy theorist, too - Vox

I know why people turn to conspiracy theories in uncertain times. I did the same when my husband had a brain tumor.

Detecting Conspiracy Theories on Social Media - RAND

Social media platforms are encountering a difficult technical and policy challenge as they try to mitigate harm from online conspiracy theory language. As part ...